• Title of article

    CAPRICE98: a balloon-borne magnetic spectrometer equipped with a gas RICH and a silicon calorimeter to study cosmic rays

  • Author/Authors

    Barbiellini، نويسنده , , G. and Bartalucci، نويسنده , , S. and Bellotti، نويسنده , , R. and Bergstrِm، نويسنده , , D. and Bidoli، نويسنده , , V. and Boezio، نويسنده , , M. and Bonvicini، نويسنده , , V. and Bravar، نويسنده , , U. and Cafagna، نويسنده , , Raoul F. and Carlson، نويسنده , , P. and Casolino، نويسنده , , M. and Ciacio، نويسنده , , F. and Circella، نويسنده , , M. di Marzo، نويسنده , , C.De and Pascale، نويسنده , , M.P.De and F، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2001
  • Pages
    3
  • From page
    269
  • To page
    271
  • Abstract
    CAPRICE98 is a superconducting magnetic spectrometer, equipped with a gas RICH and a silicon calorimeter, launched from Ft. Sumner (USA), on the 28th of May 1998, by the WiZard collaboration. For the first time a gas RICH detector flew together with a silicon electromagnetic calorimeter, allowing mass resolved antiprotons, with E>18 GeV, to be detected. The detector configuration was completed by a time of flight for particle identification, and a set of three drift chambers for rigidity measurement. The science objectives are the study of antimatter in cosmic rays and the cosmic ray composition in the atmosphere with special focus on muons.
  • Keywords
    Cosmic rays , Balloon instrumentation
  • Journal title
    Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A
  • Serial Year
    2001
  • Journal title
    Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A
  • Record number

    2189557